V. I. Lenin

Re Draft Resolution for the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) onAn All-Russia Congress of Bank Employees

Written:Written in December, not later than the 6th, 1918Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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	  Collected Works,

      2nd English Edition,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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Immediate(within ten days) congress of hank employees (of
both unions) with committees on a parity basis for convening the

congress.{1}

Similarparity committees to verify, discover and expose sabotage.

Groupsof leading members of Banktrud to be charged immediately with
precise defined practical tasks in the field of bank nationalisation, with
a short period set for their fulfilment.

{1}This refers to the setting up of committees on a parity basis for
convening a congress of bank employees, which was to form a single union of
bank employees in place of the two existing trade unions-the All-Russia
Credit Business Workers Trade Union (Banktiud) and the R.S.F.S.B. People’s
Bank Workers Union (Bankosotrud). On December 2, 1918, the question of the
relationships between the two unions was discussed at a special conference
presided over by Lenin, The Congress of Bank Employees was held in the
beginning of January 1919.